Deaths
- April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco (born c. 1524), Italian poet and musician
- August 12 – Sir Thomas Smith (born 1513), English scholar, diplomat and poet
- October 7 – George Gascoigne (born c. 1535), English poet who died while a guest at George Whetstone's family manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire; Whetstone commemorated his friend in a long elegy.
- Also:
- Rémy Belleau (born 1528), French poet and member of La Pléiade
- Annibale Cruceio (born 1509), Italian, Latin-language poet
Read more about this topic: 1577 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)